Month: February 2011

Looking at a couple of numbers.

The U. S. economy is big. Actually it’s huge. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis last year the GDP was $14.6602 trillion ($14,660,200,000,000). For some people the economy has recovered nicely. Those people...

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Today in the Stupid

An amazing thing happens when the federal government tells the light bulb industry that their products need to be more efficient. Scientists go to work to make their products more efficient. While it’s true that the...

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Bunch on Reagan

Will Bunch gets some precious space in the Washington Post to debunk five myths about Ronald Reagan, on the occasion of his 100th birthday. For example, Reagan didn’t shrink the size of government. Reagan famously declared...

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The economic aspect of Egypt’s protests

Conventional wisdom in Washington seems to have pretty quickly settled on an ideological basis for the unrest in Egypt.  By doing so it has ignored a more compelling – and prosaic – explanation. Cross posted...

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Reagan’s White House Years – The Anniversary

. The Reagan Doctrine: Terrorism and Assassinations Although the American people and Congress supported the Grenada invasion, Democrats led by House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill, questioned the wisdom and morality of...

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